Chapter 23
POV: Omniscient
Cinder, Mercury and Emerald were stand on top of a building, watching the mayhem they helped create.
Cinder: So much death… It's… Glorious. Focus on the knights.
Mercury: Don't worry, I'm getting all of it.
Emerald: It's almost sad… almost.
Cinder: Keep the broadcast going. You don't want to miss what happens next.
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All around the school, people who were fighting felt the ground shake beneath their feet. Over in mountain Glenn, the mountain cracked. After a few more shakes, pieces of the mountain began falling off, revealing a black, scaly core. After 2 more shakes, all was still. Then, a massive grimm, that resembled a dragon, burst out of Mountain Glenn! It went into the air, and began flying towards the school, straight at Beacon Tower.
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Blake was once more pushed back, almost stumbling to her knees.
Adam: This could have been our day!
Blake: I never wanted this! I wanted equality!
Adam: What you want is IMPOSSIBLE!
His sentence was punctuated with a slap, knocking Blake down again. This time, her sword was sent spinning out of her hands.
Adam: You know, I think I understand how you feel, Blake. Because all I wanted was you. But now, as I deliver the justice against humanity that it so greatly deserves, I will make it my mission to destroy everything you hold dear...
?: Blaaaaaaake! Where are you?!
Adam looked up, to see Yang outside. He looked back down, and saw a terrified look on Blake's face. He knew she wasn't scared about what would happen to her. She never was. She was scared for that girl with the blonde hair.
Adam: ...starting with her.
Yang turned to the building next to her, as she heard a scream of pain, Blake's scream of pain. What she saw, was a strange man with a white fang mask and a glowing red sword, standing over Blake. Blood was dripping from his blade.
Yang: Get AWAY FROM HER!
Yang, without hesitation, jumped forward.
Blake: No…
Of course, no one could hear her over Yang's war cry. Then, in the blink of an eye, Yang fell to the ground, unconscious. Her arm was gone. Adam resheathed his blade, and then walked towards the now-unconscious Yang. He was ready to deal the finishing blow, when he was stopped by Blake. She kneeled over her injured friend, making it so that to kill Yang, he would first have to kill Blake.
Adam: Why must you hurt me like this, my love?
And then, in an instant, his sword darted out of its sheath. Blake's head was removed from her body. The clone faded almost instantly. Blake had disappeared with Yang.
POV: Rocket
I stood up, and spit out some blood.
Ruby: Rocket! How did you survive?!
Rocket: Aura is an amazing thing, even when hitting the ground at 180 MPH.
I turned around.
Rocket: We have to get to ground. The ship will go down any seco-
The ship shuddered, and started losing altitude. Ruby nodded, and was about to grab her scythe and jump off.
Rocket: Wait! I… don't have a way down, and I'm not free falling again. Yes, my aura is coming back, but I definitely don't have enough to jump off 45000 feet and survive again.
Ruby: Then hold on.
She then dragged me off the ship, and pulled me onto her scythe. She started firing, which slowed our fall.
Rocket: Aim for the water!
We hit the water. We weren't quit going fast enough to hurt us, but it was still a shock.
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POV: Omniscient
In a different area of the city, Glynda and Qrow were fighting off grimm. They had a small time of respite, when they noticed Cardin battling one grimm. He finally defeated it. He seemed only then notice robots surrounding him. He lifted his hands in surrender, but the robots didn't care. Suddenly, he heard gun go off behind him, waited for the excruciating pain of a bullet wound. It didn't come. When he opened his eyes, all of the robots were destroyed. In the cloud of dust, stood Ironwood, except only kindof. Some of his skin had been torn away, leaving a metal cyborg body. The skin was still on his head and one of his arms. Ironwood walked over to Glynda and Qrow, leaving Cardin stunned.
Ironwood: Ok, we need to-
Qrow just looked angrily at him, and changed his sword into scythe form.
Ironwood: Qrow! I didn't cause this!
Qrow at already started running at him. The general just got his gun ready, trying to figure out how he would stop Qrow. But then, Qrow jumped, while still keeping his vision locked straight forward, now over Ironwood's head. Ironwood turned around, and found out that a griffon was about to attack him. Qrow quickly cut the griffon in half, landing behind Ironwood.
Qrow: I know you didn't do this, Jimmy. The question, is what are you going to do about it?
Ironwood: First, we need to establish a perimeter. I'll leave that to you, Glynda. Meanwhile, Qrow, I want you to find people who need to be rescued.
Qrow: What will you be doing?
Ironwood: I still need to get to my ship…
There was a single explosion behind him. He turned around to see his ship crashing to the ground. Everything went silent. Then his ship completely exploded.
Qrow: Well, it won't be much of a walk.
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POV: Rocket
We limped to the new evac-point. Weiss was there when we got there.
Weiss: You guys are ok! I saw the ship go down, and I didn't know where you two went. What happened up there?
Ruby: That's a long story. Is everything ok down here?
Weiss: Um…
I looked behind Weiss, and almost threw up.
Ruby: Weiss, what's wro-
She also saw Yang and Blake. Blake had a massive wound in her stomach, while Yang… well… her arm was kind of missing.
Ruby: ...What happened?
Sun suddenly walked up behind us.
Sun: We have a ship ready to get all of you of here. As soon as we make it to a safe zone, we can treat Yang and Blake.
Nora: But what about Jaune and Pyrrha?
Ren: Their still missing!
Sun: That huge grimm is still circling the tower. Even the white fang are pulling out!
Ren: We… aren't… leaving!
He tried to stand up, but fell back down after pain flared up in his side. Ruby and I glanced at each other.
Ruby: I'll find them, and bring them back.
Rocket: No.
She looked up at me.
Rocket: You won't do it alone. Now that Blake and Yang are safe and protected, more of us can go looking for them.
Weiss: Then I might as well go too. You two might need someone with any sort of rational thinking.
As we walked away, Sun just had to call after us.
Sun: You'd better be back!